Blog 2017

Two librarians sharing their thoughts with us about how the Summon service is helping to expose their digital and special collections. Check out this video to hear about how discovery is increasing visibility of this unique and valuable content at the University of Miami and the University of South Australia.

With the recent agreement to index The Digital Library of Georgia's collection, users of the Summon® service will soon be able to discover resources in this vast collection of digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, architectural drawings, audio, video, and other resources.

Collection development, analytics and knowledgebase workflows surfaced as hot topics for discussion at the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Serials Solutions Users Group Meeting, held June 14 at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

“If you’re doing serious research, then you need an academic website,” says Chris Dames, dean of libraries at the University of Missouri—St. Louis." Dames is bringing in Summon and also making sure that every inch of the library is wireless and adding a coffee service so students can study in caffeinated peace.

What one thing would Stephen Parnell from the University of South Australia and Scott Garrison, formerly of Western Michigan University and currently at Ferris State University, share with libraries considering the Summon service? Hear it from their own lips in this video.

At the recent ALA conference, I had the opportunity to lead a session called “The Road to Intota: The Journey of Web-scale Development” session which included an overview of how Intota is being developed and what’s unique about it.